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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 19d

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:

• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist

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Jade McDowell @jademc07.bsky.social · Aug 14

As a copywriter who does a lot of long form writing for clients' websites it's so depressing knowing that I'm mostly writing to give AI bots something to summarize instead of people actually clicking on the site and reading the article.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Aug 13

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here.

The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · Aug 10

This is again a reminder that college isn’t supposed to just teach you a job but is supposed to teach you how to think, because that job you’re training for might not exist when you graduate

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · Aug 10

"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ...

That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

www.nytimes.com

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Jade McDowell @jademc07.bsky.social · Aug 7

Wow. Stuart was upset his 18-year-old relative was facing years in prison for sex with a 13-year-old and now the 18 yo is just getting house arrest and community service (no sex offender registry) thanks to a law the legislature "just happened" to pass on his watch.

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Utah’s Senate president prompted law change that helped a teen charged with child rape

An 18-year-old high schooler was facing potential prison time and having to register as a sex offender until help came from a powerful ally — Senate President J. Stuart Adams.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · Aug 5

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · Aug 5

"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."

cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · Aug 5

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 5

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.

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Jade McDowell @jademc07.bsky.social · Aug 4

I am so stressed out over waiting for my 4-month-old niece to be old enough to finish all her vaccinations so she doesn't catch anything from all the dummies in Utah who don't vaccinate.

Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · Aug 4

Utah now has the nation's 2nd highest rate of vaccine waivers, per new CDC data. Meanwhile, kids are about to return to school amid outbreaks of measles and whooping cough. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

Utah vaccine exemption rate rises to No. 2 in nation

The biggest jumps are mostly in heavily conservative parts of the state.

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · Aug 2

Hey fellow male high school teachers: let’s really go out of our way to model positive behavior for our male students this year, and also correct them quickly when they say demeaning things about their female peers and teachers.

This has been my contribution to the manosphere discourse.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Aug 1

i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"

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David Kroman @kromandavid.bsky.social · Jul 29

Extremely cool opportunity: The Seattle Times is hiring a DC correspondent. Rare these days for a local paper. seattletimes.applytojob.com/apply/oVo010...

D.C. Correspondent - The Seattle Times - Career Page

We’re seeking a a D.C.-based correspondent to uncover how federal power touches lives in the Pacific Northwest!

seattletimes.applytojob.com

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dtf1947 @dtf1947.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Jul 23

I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator

very grim

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Jul 22

We just translated a wave of our ICE coverage into Spanish. No paywall, no email signup necessary. From leaks about Palantir's work with ICE to ICE's new facial recognition app, we think there is a massive public interest in this info. Read why and support us here: www.404media.co/were-publish...

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John Breen’s Body @acab.dad · Jul 22

“I debated Mehdi Hasan and got fired for it” is going to turn into a viable grift for several of these fascist douchebags.

This is why you don’t platform fascists.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · Jul 22

Jubilee.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · Jul 21

what the fuck is this shit

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Jul 21

Constitutional crisis is here

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Jul 20

Donald Trump, who I do not support, had no more of a friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, who I do not support, than he does with Vladimir Putin, who I also do not support.

by Glenn Greenwald

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Jul 19

Getting rid of PBS is also meant to clear the field for Prager U to be the place for children programming.

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Jade McDowell @jademc07.bsky.social · Jul 18

The skills and priorities that make for a good journalist and a good business-runner are very different and I think a lot of outlets have been hurt by a business-first mindset running the newsroom or a journalism-first mindset running the business.

Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · Jul 18

“Twenty million could have changed so many lives — like, it is so much money — and it was just squandered for somebody’s ego trip.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/what...

What went wrong at the Houston Landing?

“We tried to be too much, too fast, for too many people.”

www.niemanlab.org

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Jade McDowell @jademc07.bsky.social · Jul 18

I hope the FCC blocks the Paramount merger anyway because maybe at some point people will learn that when you bow down to a fascist once it's never enough.

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins.bsky.social · Jul 18

"The network that once made Cronkite the most trusted man in America no longer gets the benefit of the doubt. CBS’s owners have made a series of decisions capitulating to President Donald Trump..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Is Colbert’s Ouster Really Just a ‘Financial Decision’?

CBS no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · Jul 18

I've been saying to friends for a few months that the more I study authoritarianism in other countries, the more concerned I become that the CBS story is the sleeping giant here. The process has been a simmer (people inside the network have spoken out in real-time) but don't mistake slow for safe.

Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social · Jul 18

One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over. #Colbert

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Jade McDowell @jademc07.bsky.social · Jul 18

New books in a series need the literary equivalent of when a TV show that's been off the air for two years starts the new season with "Previously on..."

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 18

Funding cuts to PBS and NPR, attempts to stop the Wall Street Journal from publishing, Colbert canceled.

Do not take a free press for granted. We need to fight for it.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · Jul 18

A picture of Stephen Colbert pointing at the viewer with the words If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine

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